Human as Media

Just a small catalog of essential books on media ecology, postjournalism, digital orality, and AI.

As media evolution is driven by the technological imperative (media seeking better performance), AI may not need agency at all.

As The Washington Post moved to cut about one-third of its staff, including roughly 300 of its 800 journalists, some critics turned on its owner, Jeff Bezos: given his massive fortune, why not simply absorb the losses and keep funding the paper...

A chapter from The Digital Reversal.

The latest book by media theorist Andrey Mir raises hypotheses that are as lucid as they are unsettling about the future of literate culture and the human race itself.

A review of Andrey Mir’s “The Digital Reversal.”

Paul Levinson, a student of Neil Postman and a collaborator with Marshall McLuhan, became one of the first readers and critics of The Digital Reversal.

Media are the hardware of society, and culture is its software.

The future of the book is the blurb, said Marshall McLuhan.

Global swarming may turn out to be more disastrous than global warming.